Someone built themselves a Batboat in their dad’s shed

Few garden sheds are put to good use.
They’re places for people to potter about in – either hiding from their spouses or trying to nurture plants in the wrong season.
We need to stop letting companies profit from our fear and confusion around vaginas But an engineer from Hampshire has just spent the past five years in his dad’s shed building a Batman-style leisure powerboat (or Batboat, as it’s known in the DC Comics series).
And he’s just won the backing to start mass producing them.
Chris Phillips, 35, had to sell his Maserati to fund the project and spent £40,000 on producing the... read more

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